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Date:      Mon, 23 Oct 2000 18:57:38 +0200
From:      Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
To:        Graham Guttocks <graham_guttocks@yahoo.co.nz>
Cc:        Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: help disabling write caching upon bootup
Message-ID:  <20001023185738.B8357@curry.mchp.siemens.de>
In-Reply-To: <20001023151533.30295.qmail@web10308.mail.yahoo.com>; from graham_guttocks@yahoo.co.nz on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 04:15:33AM %2B1300
References:  <20001023151533.30295.qmail@web10308.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Tue, 24-Oct-2000 at 04:15:33 +1300, Graham Guttocks wrote:
> Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> wrote: 
> 
> > You might want to look into the adaptec bios. The newer versions
> > have the possibility to control this for each drive. Maybe it
> > is set to on there...
> 
> My adaptec bios didn't have such an option unfortunately.

But this is a separate controller, not an onboard controller, right?
In the first case you can flash your bios to version 2.57.2 from
adaptec and set the write cache explicitely to disabled there...

	-Andre

> 
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